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I just eat way, way too fast.

Jordan, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Mickey's makes me think of http://www.everlastworld.de/images/Cover/HouseOfPain/HouseOfPain.jpg

kenan, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Nick, maybe next time you could save up a bunch of those cardboard tubes that tampons come pacakged in and put a few pieces of licorice in each one. I bet they don't look too closely at THOSE.

Laurel, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

mmm... licorice applicator.

kenan, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

GODDAMMIT if only I had a prosthetic leg.

n/a, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I'd turn around and leave if a movie theater employee decided to search me, assuming I hadn't already bought my ticket.

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I tried to convince Sarah that we should buy a fake pregnant lady stomach for her to wear and fill it up with candy. Then we would also have to smuggle in a plastic baby, so that as we leave the movie, it wouldn't be suspicious that her stomach got smaller.

n/a, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

this all sounds very elaborate. Just sneak shit in, that's all. It's not hard. You're just afraid of embarrassment.

kenan, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

They didn't really "search" us at the Logan, just asked to look in Sarah's purse. They also made this dude check his messenger bag, without looking in it. I agree it's pretty lame, but if they're selling tickets at $3 each, they're probably making all of their profit from concessions.

n/a, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Which is why we snuck in candy.

n/a, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

They may also be looking for guns/Mickey's.

Eazy, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

While you're at it, sneak into another movie after the one you paid for. A whole afternoon of air conditioning! They do not pay attention, believe me. :)

kenan, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

well, i don't know about the logan. But multiplexes are ripe for all kinds of exploitation.

kenan, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I can take planning, though... you have to figure out which movie you want to vote with your dollar on, see that one first, and sneak into the movie that you figure doesn't need your dollar. Pay for the indie film, sneak into "Pirates," that kinda thing.

kenan, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Search: Secret zippered compartment in virtually every purse ever made.

Destroy: People who sneak in foods that have a very strong odor OR booze that causes them to behave like baffoons and/or litter.

Quiet booze drinkers and non-odor food sneakers, I have no problem with you. I sneak food into virtually every movie theater I visit.

La Lechera, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

"You're my buddy Dewar's. I'm gonna sneak you into the movies in my tummy!"

kenan, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

(approximately one of you will get that reference.)

kenan, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

"At least one thing will go smoothly today."

kenan, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Do people really sneak booze into the movies? That's a level of sad that I have heretofore managed to avoid.

kenan, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

My Mickey's/not-Champagne stories are the only two times I have done so.

I think people who get the shakes without a nip sneak in booze.

Eazy, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never had any desire to sneak booze into the movies. (I'm using booze to mean "alcoholic bevvies.")

La Lechera, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

What's sad about sneaking booze into movies?!

Jordan, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

this:

I think people who get the shakes without a nip sneak in booze.

kenan, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

In fact, I got a beer at the Siskel on Friday and only drank like 1/3 of it. Mistake!

La Lechera, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

With the not-Champagne, I was supposed to go to a play opening with some friends, but we got there at 8 only to find that it started at 7:30, and I had brought a bottle of not-Champagne for a Franco-American actress in the cast, and so the bunch of us bought paper cups at the White Hen and brought the whole thing into the Davis.

P.S., I meant to ask El Lechero about how he ended up shooting Chicago from the corncob towers.

Eazy, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh! I knew you would notice that! We know a guy who lives there.

La Lechera, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

But when you go to one of those cool theaters that serve alcohol, wouldn't you get a beer?

Jordan, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

By not-Champagne, do you mean a Champagne-style beverage not actually from the region of Champagne? And by Franco-American actress, do you mean a woman who shills for Spaghetti-Os?

jaymc, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

xp - If I wanted one, I would. But I wouldn't get one just because it was there.

La Lechera, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

We are very different people.

Jordan, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess we can never be sisters.

La Lechera, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

:(

Jordan, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't people have drunk sisters?

Jordan, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I was going to make a sorority joke but I don't know the names of any actual sororities.

La Lechera, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.music.vt.edu/people/students/TBS/images/2001/sorority.jpg

La Lechera, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/25/58/22405825.jpg

La Lechera, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

^would party with

Jordan, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.alicepaul.org/images/Alice%20sorority.jpg

La Lechera, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I love those ladies. Look at them! They're so serious.

La Lechera, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

What the fuck is sad about sneaking booze into a movie? Do you think that the Brew and View at the Vic is sad too?

Jesse, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I once snuck a bottle of bubbly and to-go sushi into a movie.

Jesse, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

SO HUNGRY YOU GUYS!

Jordan, I eat really fast, too. I think it means we are evolutionarily superior.

I love movie snacks in part because my mom would never let my sisters and me get them growing up. lately I have a real partiality to getting a hot dog at movie theaters. is that gross?

I have never actually snuck booze into a theater, but it seems like a good idea.

horseshoe, Monday, 27 August 2007 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

but I am sympathetic to Amanda's point. every time I've been to the Brew and View the second movie is inaudible because of drunken yahoos.

horseshoe, Monday, 27 August 2007 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

drunks with a sense of shame and civics are fine with me, though.

horseshoe, Monday, 27 August 2007 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I would expect as much at the Brew and View, because that's what it is. But to hear cans opening and falling on the floor at a regular movie theater irritates me. At least have the decorum to bring a quiet flask!

La Lechera, Monday, 27 August 2007 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

What the fuck is sad about sneaking booze into a movie?

alright alright, christ, i take it back. I was thinking more of what eric was talking about, like having a half pint of something strong in your jacket to keep you from feeling sick. That's all I meant by "sad."

kenan, Monday, 27 August 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess when I think of "booze" I'm not thinking of beer or wine or anything but the hard stuff.

kenan, Monday, 27 August 2007 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Uh I have never heard of anyone sneaking alcohol anywhere for that reason, Kenan. Maybe I've been hanging out with the wrong/right crowd?

Laurel, Monday, 27 August 2007 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse: You inspired me, and I bought a watch today. It is this:

http://www.swissarmy.com//images/ProductCatalog/sa/sa_24656_sol_a03.jpg

The band is actually leather wrapped in cloth, for maximum durability. I figure, I'm not buying another watch for a long, long while. It's not like shoes or something.

kenan, Monday, 27 August 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

There is a dude at work with a nerd watch. It's in binary or something. What kind of asshole wears a watch that no one else can read?

Jordan, Monday, 27 August 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link


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